All Letters to the editor articles – Page 30

  • Tacheles
    Opinion

    Berlin's walls

    2011-02-11T00:00:00Z

    Happily Berlin’s alternative ways of doing things do not depend on the survival of Tacheles

  • Opinion

    System addict

    2011-02-11T00:00:00Z

    Oh God, I must be getting old! System-built schools eh?

  • Education secretary Michael Gove leaves Downing Street.
    Opinion

    Preset limits

    2011-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Out of the costly BSF frying pan and into the now frugal but still centralised fire! (“’Flat-pack’ schools will make architects redundant” bdonline January 28)

  • Opinion

    History lessons

    2011-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Toby Young is right – to a degree – but the argument is getting polarised (News, January 28).

  • Opinion

    Falling flat

    2011-02-04T00:00:00Z

    As someone who has fought battles with his local authority over the quality of design for our local PFI-funded school building projects, the news about flat-pack schools is about as depressing as it gets (bdonline, January 28)

  • Opinion

    RIBA diva

    2011-02-04T00:00:00Z

    It is sad that my institute abolished the RIBA Trust at the urging of the chief executive, in the absence of some council members, on a narrow vote

  • Toby Young
    Opinion

    Daddy would not be proud

    2011-02-04T00:00:00Z

    To borrow from 1066 and All That (which I’m sure Gove would like us all to do), Toby Young is repulsive but right

  • Opinion

    Dot con

    2011-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Please can you bring back the dot-to-dot.

  • Opinion

    Building enmity

    2011-02-04T00:00:00Z

    The surge in new school building and refurbishing, sponsored by the government and administered by BSF, is to meet the backlog of neglect in the existing stock, caused by many years of shameful lack of maintenance.

  • Opinion

    Blame game

    2011-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Education has been a political football in the UK since 1945 and this has been, and continues to be, detrimental to the progress of this country

  • Opinion

    Window smear

    2011-01-28T00:00:00Z

    Your feature on student buildings at Somerville College, Oxford (Technical January 14) shows a window unit section that is unbelievable

  • Oxley Woods in Milton Keynes
    Opinion

    Oxley Woods: the inside story

    2011-01-28T00:00:00Z

    Your front page story and leader (January 21) contain much that supports what has been achieved at Oxley Woods to date. However, the headline,”Rogers ditched” is misleading and contradicts the success story described in both pieces

  • Opinion

    Home making

    2011-01-28T00:00:00Z

    Your leader (January 21) views the dumping of Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners’ Oxley Woods designs primarily through the prism of Modern

  • Opinion

    Only way forward

    2011-01-28T00:00:00Z

    Further to the restructuring of the RIBA and abolition of the RIBA Trust, members will have received an email from the president about statements made in the press

  • Opinion

    Docklands vision

    2011-01-28T00:00:00Z

    I don’t want to detract from Reg Ward’s great visionary qualities (News January 21).

  • Opinion

    Grads for all

    2011-01-28T00:00:00Z

    I can’t commend Grads highly enough (“Newcastle Grads scheme sets pace for recruitment News January 21).

  • Mark's Barfield's Islamia
    Opinion

    School views

    2011-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Our office is adjacent to the site of the Islamia school in Salusbury Road and I am a local resident

  • Opinion

    Out of hours

    2011-01-21T00:00:00Z

    The assault on an employee of Bond Bryan reinforces the notion that the long hours culture in practice should not be tolerated.

  • Opinion

    Get the picture

    2011-01-21T00:00:00Z

    The illustration of Liam O’Connor’s design for the Bomber Command memorial planned for Green Park (Letters January 14), does not depict the real situation.

  • Opinion

    Stop the damage

    2011-01-21T00:00:00Z

    The sudden abolition of the RIBA Trust is very difficult to justify. It has been one of the most successful parts of the RIBA.But it raises issues more important than just the discourteous way it was handled by the chief executive. The manner by which this “reorganisation” was forced through ...